Supreme Court of India

State of Rajasthan v. Smt. Kalki & Anr.

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Reported as [1981] 3 S.C.R. 504

Bench O. Chinnappa Reddy J.

Decided 15 April 1981

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What the Court ordered

In the result we set aside the order of acquittal passed by the learned High Court and convict respondent Kalki alias Kali under section 302 of the Penal Code and respondent, Amara, under Section 302/34 of the Penal Code, and sentence each of them to suffer im prisonment for life.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

litigation; in the decree in a civil case, or in seeing an accused person punished. witness who is a natural one and is the only possible eye witness in the circumstances of a case cannot be said to be "interested". In the instant case, P.W. 1 had no interest in protecting the real culprit, and falsely implicating the respondents. (507 -BJ CRIMINAL APPELLATE JuRISDICTION : Crirpinai Appeal No. 543 of 1976. · Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated the llth May 1975 of the Rajasthan High Court in . . Criminal Jail Appeal Nos. 277, 413 to 416 and 918 of 1971. Badri Das Sharma

Where later benches applied it

2022 Md. Jabbar Ali & Ors. v. The State of Assam relied on
2013 Babu and Anr. v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police, Chennai relied on
2013 Subodh Nath and Anr. v. State of Tripura relied on
2026 Gautam Satnami v. The State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2025 Baljinder Kumar @ Kala v. State of Punjab referred to
2024 Periyasamy v. The State Represented by the Inspector of Police referred to
2023 Vahitha v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. referred to
2013 Kusti Mallaiah v. The State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2012 Amit v. State of Uttar Pradesh referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 7 referred to

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